Word: attainable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...following year saw another brief venture entitled The Crucible. It had three editors who announced that they proposed "to give an opportunity to publish essays or reports that have been written in the various courses, for many of them attain a degree of excellence of which we may well be proud." The Crucible, too, endured but one year...
...achieve a momentum of economic progress which will make it possible for them to go forward in self-reliant growth." But the divergence in the two policy outlooks is at least as striking as the difference between Eisenhower's professed aims and the policies he will seek to attain them. "The United States," he said, "will press these measures energetically, consistent with the maintenance of a sound domestic economy." (Italics ours...
Charles de Gaulle or Orval Faubus. De Gaulle will be remembered for leading his country from chaos to what should be a self-sustaining nation in the eyes of the world; Faubus will be remembered for leading his state from frustration to chaos to attain personal glory at the expense of thousands of Arkansas citizens who would have otherwise swallowed the integration pill along with their tradition and pride as law-abiding people...
Recognition of the German Democratic Republic, it seems clear, would not help attain our objectives. The Communist regime in Germany is one of the most despicable of the satellite governments and is maintained chiefly by the presence of about twenty Soviet army divisions. The riots of June 17, 1953 revealed the regime's unpopularity, and while the material condition of the East Germans has improved since then, it is doubtful whether the government could survive without Russian support. In return, the German Democratic Republic has been the most consistent echoer of Moscow policy, especially with its vicious outbursts against revisionism...
...Hickey comes bearing a new gospel--"beat the game of life" by trying to attain the consoling dream. Failure is sure, but the dream will lose its haunting power; failure will bring an end to torment and a perfect peace. The barflies find, however, that to abandon the dream is to die, and that Hickey's peace is the peace of death. The only way to play the game of life is against the usual, heavy odds. Harry Hope and his friends decide that Hickey is mad, and go back to the old life of torment and bad whiskey...